Bosque, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76634. It stands on Schumacher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clifton quadrangle.

Bosque within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1888 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

8 of 9 photographs shown, 2014

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Faded advertising mural for the Chisholm Trail Tradin' Post in Meridian, a town in Bosque County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Rural scene in Bosque County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Distinctively banded cattle on a ranch in Bosque County in central Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

A 2007 mural, "Wiethorn Family Foods, Valley Mills, Texas, Welcomes You, Founded 1867," by M. Cunningham in Valley Mills, Texas, depicting an earlier time in the Bosque County town
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Kimball Academy, Route 174, Brazos River Vicinity, Kimball (historical), Bosque County, TX
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Bosque County

Fires near this place

76 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Bosque between 2005 and 2020, burning about 519 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	40
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH
23 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RONNY LAIRDON
20 September 2015	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2136
18 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHEMICAL LIME PLANT
5 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BNSF 1991
25 August 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BROOKSHIRES
24 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROADSIDE START

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clifton	5.2 miles	12
Meridian	5.5 miles	13
Womack	5.8 miles	15
Norse	7.7 miles	13
Crossroad Store	8.9 miles	12
Cayote	9.8 miles	15
Cedar Shores	10.2 miles	16
Pendell	10.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378035. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.